Lost Chapters is the nostalgic journey through Chisinau captured by the moldavian visual artist Victoria Viprada. In this poetic stroll she invites a viewer to look through the windows of the past, while experiencing the frustration, reflections and questions without answers. It is completed by a poem of the poet and philosopher Alex Cosmescu, who is just like Victoria reminiscing on their hometown’s past. This publication embodies ephemerality and evanescence that are the nature of human memories. „I must admit that this little photography book amazed me: like the great Italo Calvino’s “The Nonexistent Knight”, it is the documentary of a city that insists on sometimes showing its armors, its distinction, but is almost totally missing. It is the incarnation of chapters from a book that was, once, masterly written, but whose pages, a lot of them, become ever whiter, ever more faded, ever more invisible; though I recognize places, walls, abandoned buildings, streets, it is as i
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